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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium  Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 7:18 am |
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To pass on a story...I had a car accident earlier this year. ?All my hobby stuff was in the car. ?I had my 40K collection in the GW cases. ?They where packed in a military trunks. ?I have three of these for hobby stuff. ?They're bigger than a footlocker about 2' tall and 4' wide. ?Six of the GW cases fit in one trunk.
I took a 40 mph side impact and not one thing in those caes was damaged. ?Car was totaled.
The lesson learned was always pack minis or terrian in foam. ?Even my BFG imperial ships with their delicate masts survived without damage. ?For BFG I use some bed foam. ?It's something I picked up at Walmart. ?It's a foam sheet with lots of bumps, looks like the bottom of an egg container.
Here is a good company for miniature storage devices. ?Good stuff easy to use. ?
http://www.saboldesigns.net/
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:26 am |
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Cheers, commissar. Now I'm tempted to order a battalion case. I've been looking for a case with enough space to fit a few tanks in.
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:28 pm |
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There is a very nice piece in resin of a missile silo. About the size of a matchbox, it has a seperate sliding hatch cover so you can have your silo 'buttoned up' or 'spun-up at SQ1''!
It would make a great addition to the airfield as a Surface to Orbit defence or as a super heavy AA emplacement.
Sadly, I have no idea where it came from, having painted it and chucked the packet a few years ago. It was a fairly mainstream manufacturer though.
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:10 am |
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Hi!
Another tidbit. Walmort sells "Plano" brand pistol and rifle cases for 9-20 dollars. The large rifle cases can carry many titans and the smaller ones are excellent for those well painted metal models. Its just s big as the GW brand one that goes for 40 bucks......
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:43 am |
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| Quote (Cuban Commissar @ 22 2004 Jan.,08:13) | AH! Missile silos...Flash backs...you can't make me go back... I'm not going back...I don't want to be a servitor again...please don't plug me into the machine...noooooo!!! ? |
I knew it would be right up your alley!
I'll do some digging around and see what I can find out.
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:41 am |
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OK, I've made some calls. I believe it was a range made by a company called Lever (sp?), who have now sadly stopped production.
Maybe find some spare stock soemwhere? Hopefully?
I'll have a look in my local haunts.
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:03 am |
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Actually what we need is Vanlek to create a shrinking machine. He is our local Enginseer after all. Once we have the shrinking machine we buy all the Forgewords Missile silos and then shrink them down to epic scale.
We then turn the device on local neighborhoods to create perfect replicas to play on.
just being silly. 
Actually I sure you could easily make some home made ones.
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:14 am |
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| Quote (Cuban Commissar @ 22 2004 Jan.,07:03) | Actually what we need is Vanlek to create a shrinking machine. ?He is our local Enginseer after all. ?Once we have the shrinking machine we buy all the Forgewords Missile silos and then shrink them down to epic scale. ?
We then turn the device on local neighborhoods to create perfect replicas to play on.
just being silly. ? ?
Actually I sure you could easily make some home made ones. |
You rang? (in Lurchian tones)
Actually, we've got one of these at the department - it's called a Xerox...
Try WH40K Rhino doors mopunted on thickish plastic card (all unshrunk)
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:42 pm |
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Here is a little treasure I just found on my hard drive- a map of Khe San firebase and forward airstrip. It may help with your inspiration!
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:21 am |
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Hi!
Very cool and very inspirational!
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:40 am |
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:11 am |
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You're Welcome!
It would make an awesome battelarea- but to do it justice it would take up pretty much all of a 6x4 table. But how cool...
I have a few such treasures buried away electronically. I'll have a troll through my hardrives this weekend and see what turns up.
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:12 am |
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You're Welcome!
It would make an awesome battelarea- but to do it justice it would take up pretty much all of a 6x4 table. But how cool...
I have a few such treasures buried away electronically. I'll have a troll through my hardrives this weekend and see what turns up.
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Post subject: Airfields of the imperium Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:16 am |
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To put the base into more persective as to its shape and general layout, here is a topographical map of where is was located. 
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